Comments on: From the Lion’s Mouth: Dancing a Weedy Revolution

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:04:41 +0000

I’ve been keeping a dandelion root and leaf tincture in my freezer, and have a little sip when my energy runs low. She always brightens my step and gives me strength. I can’t wait to collect her blossoms this summer! Mine is the only yard in the block that celebrates and encourages her, though I’m working on educating my friends.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:50:50 +0000

They will keep coming, I suspect, until the earth goes into a white dwarf and marks an end and a beginning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7kFuOx6ec

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:58:37 +0000

So many people seem to despise having dandelion in their lawns and go to great pains to eradicate it. I think they’re joyously beautiful! Two years ago, the dandelions didn’t come, and I became very sad, thinking that perhaps they had all been eaten by resident woodchucks, or that it was going to be an ‘off-year.’ A few days later, they popped up out of nowhere and bloomed in profusion. Silly me…

By: Sarah Head

Sarah Head — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:00:13 +0000

I love dandelion in all her forms. She has amazed me this year by sharing her blossoms when I wasn’t expecting them – in October and Novembers sunshine. I haven’t made a tincture from her flowers yet, but will do so next year. I love the idea it can be used to ease winter’s gloom – very like the sun-gold of calendula. Like nettle, dandelion is a constant in a local pharmacopia. Thank you for adding to our knowledge of her!

By: AarTiana

AarTiana — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:55:10 +0000

From Kiva: “We healers and earth people are all dandelions shattering concrete with delicate, yet infinitely strong roots.” What an insightful observation, and I couldn’t have said it better myself! I love the amazing resiliency of Dandelion, and it is a great herb for beginners to start their study! I also love working with the Jupiter-ruled Flower Essence.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:22:10 +0000

I have noticed the tenacity of life in the plant realm as well. I have also enjoyed immensely the way the boring green of a manicured lawn can be so delightfully disturbed the day after mowing by bright yellow blossoms all over it. The neighbors poison everything it seems and then wonder why the ducks die off.

One memory of a milkweed plant. The place I worked had just blacktopped the parking lot. A milkweed plant pushed it’s way right up through the fresh blacktop. That was in 1968 and I am still impressed with what I saw.

They’ll be life long after we humans are gone.